Isol-Aid

by Patrick Baillargeon

The Australian Isol-AID festival today celebrates four months of local and international talent with Alice Skye, Billy Davis, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Denzel M, French Concession, Jordan Dennis, Kye, Soju Gang, and Yung Shogun, as well as pop sensation Banoffee and his guests Your Smith, Kacy Hill, Mood Killer, Mouth Tooth, and Montreal’s Cecile Believe. Adjust your watches because Australia is 12 hours ahead of our Eastern Standard Time. The party starts via the Isol-AID Instagram page with Cecile Believe at 12:40pm Sydney time. Each artist plays for 20 minutes. A great opportunity to discover a number of Australian artists that we hardly hear about here.

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Indie Rock / Post-Punk

Rough Trade Transmissions: Fontaines D.C.

by Patrick Baillargeon

A few weeks before the release of their second album, which will follow the consequential Dogrel, released just over a year ago, the Irish quintet will give a small live concert on the Instagram TV page of the record store Rough Trade. The Dublin-based band, often associated to the new “post-punk” scene with Shame, Idles, and The Murder Capital (also from Dublin), present several new tracks from A Hero’s Death, out on Partisan Records om July 31.

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Dance-Punk / New Wave / No Wave / Post-Punk

Rough Trade Transmissions present Public Practice

by Patrick Baillargeon

To mark the release of the vinyl and CD of the excellent Gentle Grip, pleasantly received when the digital version was released a few weeks ago, the New York dance-punk/no-wave band will present the thing live from the Rough Trade shop and concert hall in Brooklyn. Public Practice is the meeting of almost everything that was best in post-punk, dance-punk, no wave and new wave from 1978 to 1982. Think Blondie, Talking Heads, ESG, Liquid Liquid, Bush Tetras, Suicide, Gang of Four, and especially Au Pairs, all executed with accuracy but without an ounce of nostalgia! It’s free and it’s not to be missed.

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An Easter Long-Weekend Version of Isol-Aid Festival

by Patrick Baillargeon

This weekend, Isol-Aid Festival returns with another cracking online music feast and gathering space, where every weekend, from 12 noon to 12 midnight (EST), artists play 20-minute sets streamed live via their Instagram accounts. At the end of their set, each musician tag-teams the next artist to play.

This week featuring (in alphabetical order): Allara, Ben Lee, Bob Evans, The Chats, Cameron Avery, Chela, Generik, Kota Banks, Nicholas Allbrook (Pond), Olympia, Paul Dempsey, Pierce Brothers, Tia Gostelow, The Weather Station and many, many more

Isol-Aid is asking online festival attendees to please donate whatever they can to Support Act, a not-for-profit organization, to provide relief for musicians and music industry workers facing physical or mental health issues, or financial hardship. More information on Support Act can be found here.

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